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Glansevern Hall – The Laburnum Retreat
8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 10th 2016
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Glansevern Hall – The Courtyard
12 Comments CherryPie on Jun 9th 2016
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Glansevern Hall
Glansevern Hall is privately owned and not open to the public. A property listing from when the house was up for sale in 2012 provides information on the history of the house and gardens:
Glansevern Hall is approached by a drive running through an avenue of sweet chestnut trees behind a high stone wall.
Understood to be [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 8th 2016
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Cherie’s Place – Quote for the Week
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
2 Comments CherryPie on Jun 5th 2016
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Glansevern Hall – The Gardens
Glansevern Hall, an elegant Greek revival house, is romantically positioned on the banks of the River Severn in a beautiful parkland setting with sweeping views over Mid Wales, to the Kerry Hills and the Montgomeryshire County War Memorial.
The gardens extend to 25 acres and are a mixture of formal planting, lawns, a huge lake and [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 2nd 2016
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Glansevern Hall Gardens
We had an extra day off courtesy of Her Majesty the Queen in honour of her birthday. The weather was perfect for a short excursion to enjoy the sunshine, whilst it lasted. I did some quick research to find somewhere nearby that we had never been before and we settled on Glansevern Hall Gardens.
Taking advantage [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on May 31st 2016
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.
Mechthild of Magdeburg
10 Comments CherryPie on May 22nd 2016
